Nursery World - Traveller children: On the road

Building trust in the pre-school years can encourage traveller families into the formal education system, writes Judith Napier

Building trust in the pre-school years can encourage traveller families into the formal education system, writes Judith Napier

Staff expected a handful of under-fives to come along to their experimental new playgroup at a Scottish travellers site. But when they opened the doors, all ages - from toddlers to teenagers - piled in.

Dave Simmers, from the Travellers Education and Information Project (North East) in Aberdeen, recalls, 'Things like finger painting appealed just as much to over-fives as under-fives, because it was a new experience for them. Children up to early teens were coming along and enjoying it.'

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